Today (21 January 2010) I did a walk with my Moleskine sketchbook and watercolors,  to the old Hippie world of Christiania, where the Hippies still try to live according to the dreams they agreed on, almost 40 years ago.

Here are my watercolor sketches from today:

Small hippie shop in Christiania - Copenhagen

By mistake I burned the sketch in the edge, when I tried to dry it on one of the open fires they have on the street

Two guys talking between a couple of large wood sculptures

 It was freezing cold, lots of snow on the ground and my hands getting numb, so decided to go inside on a small cafe called “the moon-fisher” for a glas of tea.

The Hippie cafe "moon fisher" at Christiania (Moleskine sketch)

Back outside, I was heading down to the water, starting to sketch the amazing houses at Christiania

Christiania house between the old Copenhagen defense earth walls

 Getting all the way down to the water, it was frozen and brave parents where trying to clear the snow from the lake to make a small ice skating area for the kids, while the low winter sun where disapearing behind the city (last watercolor sketch)

Kids ice skating in front of the Christiania houses down to the lake

 It have been a cold day, today, but great to be outside and start to experimenting with combining walking with watercolor sketching in my Moleskine sketchbook… again